Combined check and cut-off valve for locomotives.



G.B.EDDY. COMBINED CHECK AND GUT-OIT VALVE FOB LOOOHOTIVES.

APPLIOATIOI FILED 136.22, 1907.

900,989. Patented octk 13,1908.'

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G. B. EDDY.

COMBINED CHECK AND GUT-OIT VALVE FOB. LOCOMOTIVBS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22, 1907.

Patented Oct. 13, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COILBINEDV CHE'K ANL CUT-OFF VALVE FOR4 LOCOMOTIVEB.

No. 900,989. i Specication o! Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 18, 190B.

Application led August 22, 1907. Serial No. 889,811

a whole, the valvev casing, comprising, as to its chief parts, a slightytapered tubular To au 'wlwm it may concern: Be it known that I, GEORGE B. EDDY, a l 1 citizen of the United States, residing at Chimember 2 terminating. at its smaller end in a cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illitapered ni ple 3 adapted to be seated in a 60 i 5 nois, have invented certain new and useful l, correspon ngly shaped aperture in a boiler "Improvements in a Combined Check -and or other vessel under steam pressure as, for Cut-Oil Valve for Locomotives, of which the instance, a locomotive boiler, and a second following is a specification. a roximately cylindric tubular member 5 Thisinvention relates to an improved com- Iunited with the member 2 and lying sub- 65 1o bined check and cut-off :valve for locomostantially at right angles to the axis of the tives, and it has for its salient objectstto latter. provide in a construction of the character The member 2 is provided naar its atreferred to novel construction and arrangetaclied end with an annular fiange 6, thrgugh ng ots ment .of the turn-cock valve associated with which are inserted a series of attachi the check valve mechanism; to provide a 7 tapped into the boiler as indicated 'clearly construction, the various parts of which are in the drawing. The tapered Vinterior of the arranged in symmetrical relation and procasing member 2 is accurately formed to revded with transposable connections; to ceive a truncated, correspondingly tapered,- provide a construction in which the cut-0H cut-off valve 8, and to hold the valve to its y715- valve is peculiarly constructed and arranged seat. The larger end. of the casing. 2 is in such manner as to effectively avoid a tendthreaded to receive a correspondingly ency to leak on the one hand and tendency threaded endclos\ire plug 9, the inner face i tobecome stuck and immovable on theothcr of which impinges against the end of the hand; to provide a construction to so organlvalve body.. A check 10 serves to lock so ize and construct.the parts that both the the closure plug in .adjusted ition. The y check valve and the out-oil valve may bev valve body 8 is provided with a stem 11 conveniently removed from the valve easing-` which extends out throng the plug 9 and without disconnecting the latter from the terminates in a Spanner-formed shank- 12, boiler; to provide a construction which afwhereby the cut-oi valve may be rotated. 85 .fords access for both cleansing and grinding The cut-off valve body 'is axially bored or Y to both valve seats without detaching theA made hollow from its inner en d outwardly, as, device from the boiler; to provide means for indicated at 13, and. 'tli the bore 13' is ardetermining whether or not the cutoff valve ranged to communicate an intersecting bore i be properly closed before thevalve casing is or port 14, which isadapted by rotation f 490 opens and, in general, to provide an 11n the valve body to be brouglitlinto register proved construction in devices of the charwith. the port or passage -15 in iA actor referred to. f 1 through the side of t e casing member 2. L l To the above cndsthe invention consists The interior of casing y5 is substantially in the matters hereinafter described and cvlindric and the ends of this member' are 95- 40 more particularly pointed out in the appendslightly contracted and axialliT bored as indied claims. v y cated at 16 and 17, respectively. in the The invention will be readily understood lower reduced end of the member 3 is seated from the following description, reference a check valve sleeve 1S, which, at its inner be' had to the accompanying drawinga'in' end, projects freely within the cylindrie 100 whic i Y l chamber and receives the checkvalve inemliirure'` 1 ,is a view in elevation of a preber 19. The outer end of this sleeve termirfei'i'el embodiment of the invention; Fig'. 2 `nates in a flanOQl), which is' preferably, as y is-a sectionallariew taken approximatel on shown, conical th exteriorly and interiorly line 22 oflFig. 1, and looking in tle ire and fits against the correspondingly beveled 106 tion of the arrows; the by-pass pikpe bein end seat 21 of the casing. i v

` however, shown inside elevation;. i 3 isa 22 designates, as a whole', the feed pipe sectional view taken on line 3-3 o Fig. 1, which communicates with the casingmember w in the direction of the artrows,A 3, and inorder to unite this feed pipe with 4 is a sectional view taken on line the casing,the pipeis provi with an en- 110 '55 ofg Fig. 3. ,larged terminal head 23, the inner end or face 24 o fjwhich is conical to fit accurately Referring to the drawings, 1 designates, as

20 overlying the member 27.

Within and against the end of the valve V valve seat in the valve casing. So, also, itis sleeve IS. A union sleeve 2.5 is arranged to telescope over the head 2S; and is threaded upon the end-*of the casing 5'; the outer end of 5 this union sleeve being` provided with an inturned ilangc 2G which engages the head of the feed pipe and serves to clamp the parts together. It will be noted that the yonstruction of the parts .is suchthat when thel ,union sleeve is disengaged, the parts may b'e separated and the valve sleeve with its contamed check valve bodily removed from the main valve casing.

The opposite end of the easing member 2 receives an end closure 27 which is provided with a conical seat 28 fitting against'the correspondiiwly"beveled 'end .29 of the, casing and said c osurc is hold in place by a cap nut 30 threaded upon the end of the casing and The member 27 is provided upon its inner end with a stop stud :'11 which cooperates with a similar stopstud 19 upon the check valve; the length of these studs being such to pro )erly limit the rising'or opening movement oi the check valve.

When it is proposed to remove the check valve meehanlsm for the purpose ot' inspeel tion, cleansing or repair, the cut-off valve is,

of course, turned into closed position so as to prevent pressure upon the boiler entering the check valve. chamber. In order to determine definitel whether the cut-off valve is absolutely tight and in position to fully cut off the pressure, a bypass pipe 32 is provided, one end of which communicates with the check valve chamber through the side of the casing member 5 and the other end of which communicates with the feed pipe- In this by-pass is provided aturn cock 33 which may be turned into either open or closed position, as usual.

` The operation of the device will be obvious from the foregoinf description. The device is characterized,howevenfin the following res ects, namely, that the pressure o f the boi er acts vdirectly upon the cut-,offvvalve bod 8 in such a manner as to tend. to force the la which it follows that no matter how tightly the follower pllu 9 be jammed against the valve body t e atter will be released and freed to rotate by slightly backing out said follower nut. This is of importance because it is very common in mechanisms of this char;

acter to have the valves which are only occasionally used become set or stuck so tightly as to be practically immovable, and failure to set the valve body tightly to its seat; ac-

centuates this trouble because it Apermits the I deposit of scale between the seat and valve body. The construction is such tht when the cut-off valve is bodil removed, as it may be by simply removing t e lug 9, free access may be had to grind or (ross the tapered tter back out of its tapered seat, from removable closure a y larger end of said tapered seat and of the ull 1,20 size of the largest part of the latter, means for to be noted that thel end Aplu 27 may be readily removed ,.7 the check va ve lifted out and its seat ground, dressed or cleansed without disturbing either the connectioirof` `the device as a whole with the boiler orthe connection of the feed 'pipe thereto. Again, if it be more convenient or desirable, the check valve sleeve 18, ma f be b'odily removed for repair or renewa by sim ly disconnecting the union couplingZ. n case the limitingstops between the check valve and stem 31 require readjustment so as to shorten the lift V'of the check valve, this is readily accomplished bysimplT removing the 80 cap() and dressing'the bevel scat between the plug ".27 and the correspondingly tapered end of the valve casing. i.

It is particularly noted that each end of the casing member 5 and the outer larger end 85 of the casing member 2 are so arranged as to I .afford free access of dressing tools without disturbing the connection of the device with the boiler. Moreover, it will be noted that the two; ends of the casing -member 5 are 9o identical in construction and symmetrically disposed'with relation to the casingl member 2 and contained parts, so that the feed pi e may be. transposed and connected .with the opposite end ofthe casing member 5. over, the by-pass 32 hasone of its legs connected. with the center of the length of the casing vmember 5 so that it also permits of transposition with the feed pipe. vThe reversibility` of connections thus provided for is of considerable importance for the reason that it reduces the stock of supplies necessary to' be carried by the locomotive repair `shops practically` one-half, since it is only necessary tov carry in stock one form Yof the device instead of rights and lefts as has heretofore been customary. l 1

' While I have shownand described what I deem to be the preferred embodimentof my invention, vet theconstruction may be somewhat modified without, departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention; f

l. In a eut-off' valve mechanism' for loc'omotive boilers and the like, a valve casing member having itssides interiorly ta ered to form a valve seat converging towar theV de livery end of 'the casilg, and provided with a' ording access to the14 attaching. the smaller end of said valve'casg ing to a boiler or other vessel under 'ressur a check valve' chamber-'connecte to an 4 communicati with.' the side of-said first,- mentioned va ve casing, an elo ted, con'" icaLtumcock valve s ing and adjusts mentby 'the end e h @a amat axial-rxnovloffxm re o said valve casing,

n amaca-valve being provided with afanL More- .95

ted'n'sai volveras;

` 'check valve casm a check valve o mounted in saidc eck valve cham l iple .connected with the latter chamber I' fgpart of said turn-cock valve I' lmpinging'upon the latter to hold -1t to itsI :Y fseat against pressure, atubular check valve casing member having 'its opposite elids .of' similar construction, secured atriht. angles` vows? passage entering' its smaller end and extend'- y mg ont through a port in its side, adapted to rotatedintojand out of register wlthsaid eratively e yering 'thereto through Lsaid check. valveaI Y 'f-2. a-device of the character described, an elongated tubular valve casinlg member havin'g'itsinteor tapered conica y to form valveseat'which converges toward the de- Within said tapered seat, an end'clotisure removably threaded upon the end of.

,of a diameter equal to the lar est and adl'usta Vly `said casi and in symmetrical xelation'to t e side of said first mentioned' valve 'casing member, a port being arranged to extend through .the

ing members, a check valve sleeve removably inserted infone end of said check valve casing member; a check valve associated with the inner en \.of said sleeve, a `feed ipe detachably'conn ted with one end cip said checkvalve casi and a removable en'd closure for the o posite'end of said check valve'casing, l

said eed/pipe and check valve sleeve and the secunng member therefor being transposable with the opposite end closure.

3. In a device of the character described, 'an

er, and aV -impinging uponthe latter to hold seat against pressure, a tubular check valve' e end of the chamber, a turn-cock valvey mail' the securi connecting wall between the two valve casend 'communicati elongated tubular valve casing member having its interior tapered conically to form azvalve seat which converges 'toward the de, liver end of the chamber a turn-cock valve fitte within said 4tapered seat,'an end clo- -sure removably threaded Aupon the end of saidcasi of a diameter equal to the largbest part of said turn-cock valveand adjusta ly 1t to its casing memberhaving its opposite ends of vsimilar construction, secured at ri ht angles andfin symmetricalrelation to t e side of said first mentioned valve casing member, a

.port being arranged to extend throgh the connecting wall between thetwo valve cas? ing members, a check valve sleeve removably inserted in one end of'said check valve casing member, -a check valve associated with the inner end of saidsleeve, a feed pi e de-4 tachfably connected with one end o said check-'valve casing, a removable end closure for the o posite end of said check valve casing, said eed-pipe and check valve sleevev and membertherefor being transfosable wit theopposite end closure, and a y-pass pipe liavi` one end 'communicating wit *the check v ve chamber, its opposite Withthe feed pipe and provided between its ends with a turn-cock, oneleg of said by-pass being connected with' the middle vofthe check valve casing so thatl its opposite end' is transposable'lwith the feed pipe connections. f

GEORGE B.`EDDY. u

. Witnesses: 4

l Gizavns, j FRAN; L. BnLxNar. 

